Around six(6) months ago, Devin went to go live with his father Ray Brown in the city of Columbus and began attending Rothschild Middle School.

But in November of 2012, Devin became the target of bullies.

“He came home one time and had some peanut butter pies he had made for school,” says Devin’s father Ray Brown. “When he walked through the door he had some pie left and he had it all over him. Someone had jumped on him and smeared it all over him. But he never wanted to talk about that. We talked to the school, they said we haven’t heard anything about it and just let it go.”

But something that happened at school last week became the final straw for Devin.

Devin saw a girl at school with a butcher knife threatening to stab a teacher. He told his teacher and the girl was taken into custody.

This didn’t fair well with some students.

Devin was quickly targeted for more bullying and called a snitch.

But it wasn’t until last March 28th, Thursday night that Devin’s family realized how far the bullying had gone.

13 year old Devin Brown

That night, Devin’s stepmother realized Devin wasn’t in his bed and called his older sister.

Cara Downs, Devin’s older sister states that she started walking through the house to help find her brother, when she heard her stepmother screaming, ‘Oh my God, Ray, Ray, help me! I can’t get him down, he hung himself!’

Devin was inside his closet with a belt around his neck.

“I could see the black and blue around his neck and I tried to find a pulse, but couldn’t find it,” says Brown.

Devin did not leave a note, but Brown says his son confided in friends earlier that day. “He told them but the kids didn’t think he meant anything that they thought he just blowing off steam.”

Brown believes being called a “snitch” at school pushed Devin over the edge.

Muscogee County School District’s director of communications told NBC News she could not confirm there was threat to a teacher, but she said a knife was found.

“It was discovered upon search in the student’s locker. And of course any student discipline, while I can’t talk about particular student discipline, was handled according to policy,” Valerie Fuller said.

At his funeral on Wednesday, a large wooden box with the word “hero” carved on it was set up. Devin’s friends dropped notes into it, thanking him for speaking up about the threat he saw at school, reported WLTZ.

“I made this for him because he is my hero. He did the right thing and he knew he did the right thing,” Brown told the affiliate.

On Devin’s gravestone, the inscription read: “You left too soon, but forever wouldn’t have been long enough. Our hero – Devin Brown.”

Thursday morning around 8:40am, in a rural North Dakota school, a freshman student got up during study hall, apologized, then shot himself.

There were seven students and a teacher in the room when the attempted suicide happened. They were not physically harmed, but I’m quite sure that this will run through their minds for a while.

He was still conscious when he was rushed to a hospital from Fairmount Public School. This school houses classes kindergarten through 12th, with a whopping 112 students total.
(Note to self: Check this schools academic scores. Then check the property value in this area.)

The mayor of Fairmount, Mayor Jon Nelk, says that the (unnamed) student lived his entire life in this city of 380. He also states, ‘As far as I know, he’s well behaved and a good kid’.

The mayor also stated that this was an isolated incident.

(I personally think that any incident like this would be deemed isolated. Things like this is never the norm.)

The school went into immediate lockdown after the incident as they ordered the entire student body to the library. Parents were alerted to come retrieve their students within the hour.

A teacher was there to administer first aid until he was taken to St Francis Hospital in Breckenridge.

A mom in Bunnell, Florida was finally fed up with her son being bullied at school and decided to do something about it.

Felecia Phillips, 35, went to the bus stop at 7 a.m. and confronted a 17-year-old Flagler Palm Coast High School student about a fight the student had the previous day with her son.

Deputies said pushed the student in the face and the teen then slammed Phillips to the ground as the bus arrived, according to the report.

Phillips then chased the teen onto the bus where she grabbed his hair, deputies said. The bus driver told Phillips she was trespassing and had to get off the bus, according to deputies.

Phillips was arrested at around 10 a.m. on child abuse charges and trespassing on school property. She was booked at the Flagler County Inmate Facility on $2,500 bond.

The station spoke to Phillips when she left jail. She said her son had been bullied by kids in the neighborhood for years and she decided to take matters into her own hands.

“He called me a (expletive), and I did push him in his face. I just want you to leave my son alone,” Phillips said. “He’s not that type of kid to go around messing with other kids. My son is trying to get an education. Leave him alone.”

Phillips told the station she didn’t regret attacking the teen because she was acting for her son.

“I don’t want anybody picking on him, and messing with him. Leave my son alone,” Phillips said. “He’s not looking for trouble. I don’t even raise my kids that way. He’s not messing him, why are you messing with him? So no, I don’t regret it.”

Justin Mickens, the teen attacked in the video, and his family said Phillips is out of line. They want the public to know he’s not the bully she makes him out to be.

“I don’t talk to her son,” said Mickens. “If they don’t say nothing to me, I won’t say nothing to them.”

When asked how Phillips’ son felt about his mom defending him, Terez Smith, 15, said, “I feel great about it because I know a lot of people wish they had a mom that will have their back.”

Deputies were called back to Phillips’ house at around 6 p.m. Wednesday because she says Mickens threatened her son again.

It’s not clear if the teen will face any charges, but deputies did say he was acting in self-defense when he slammed Phillips to the ground.

Well it seems that the boy’s story may not be all true. Or at least not the version of events that actually happened.

Detroit News is reporting: A doctor who examined a 13-year-old boy who reported being abducted from a school and raped earlier this week found no evidence of a sexual assault, a police source familiar with the investigation told The News on Friday.

The boy, who school officials say has behavioral issues, told police he opened a locked door at Wayne Elementary School on Courville Street to let two men inside Wednesday, and that they yanked him from the school, took him to an abandoned house and raped him.

The police source said that the boy’s story keeps changing. “He knows who did it,” the source said, adding that the incident was likely gang-related and involved a friend of the boy’s brother.

Police and school officials said they don’t believe the boy was abducted from the school, and that he left of his own volition.

Detroit school officials on Thursday also questioned the story told by the boy, who had been expelled from Wayne Elementary earlier Wednesday. The boy was a new student at the school who began attending classes this week.

A Detroit Public Schools Police official said there is no surveillance footage of the alleged abduction because some security cameras at the school weren’t working.

Inspector Mike Walsh said Thursday the school has two video surveillance systems. The indoor system was operational, but the outdoor system hasn’t worked in years, he said.

Resident Lawrence Snider said Wednesday he saw the youth walking down Lakepointe, which borders the school, in his school shirt, hands bound behind his back with black electrical tape.

His face was bleeding and he was missing pants and shoes and appeared “all messed up,” Snider said.

The boy told him he was raped, and Snider helped contact his grandparents.